# Kibana wildcard query does not return any data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wildcard-query-does-not-return-any-data/104878>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 23, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wildcard-query-does-not-return-any-data/104878 "2017-10-23T09:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dulman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@dulman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dulman)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wildcard-query-does-not-return-any-data/104878/1 "2017-10-23T09:29:17Z")

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Hello,

we are forwarding application logs via filebeat to elasticsearch. We want to filter/search these logs for upcoming exceptions.

When I search for _Exception_ kibana does not return any data:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/2/e2b5d6845e3522720aa84a91446ad39654639da2.png)

But when I manually search for exceptions in kibana I find logs (exceptions) like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/b/eb8ff10c008443f367d19adc29323ed31220be32.png)

Why?

We are using Kibana/Elasticsearch with version 5.5.0

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**Author:** ![timroes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timroes/32/19712_2.png) [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wildcard-query-does-not-return-any-data/104878/2 "2017-10-23T13:03:17Z")

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Hello,

I would think the issue you are running into, is that the values of these field are too long (above the `ignore_above` value of your mapping) and thus not indexed for searching. This is a common issue when storing stack traces. I tried to write in [this blog post](https://www.timroes.de/2016/05/29/elasticsearch-kibana-queries-in-depth-tutorial/#elasticseach-doesn-t-find-terms-in-long-fields) about that issue and how you can check your mapping.

If that is the issue, you should adjust your mapping, to increase the `ignore_above` size if you want to search also long field values.

Cheers,  
Tim

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**Author:** ![dulman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@dulman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dulman)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wildcard-query-does-not-return-any-data/104878/3 "2017-10-24T08:11:03Z")

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Thank you Tim!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wildcard-query-does-not-return-any-data/104878/4 "2017-11-21T08:11:23Z")

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